Crest for historic Royal
Mail carriageFenix
Carriages' beautiful restoration of the last Royal Mail 'Quicksilver'
stage coach required an appropriate crest to be painted on both the
carriage
doors

Copy of 19th Century
American painting, 'Desolation' by Thomas ColeCommissioned
copy [3ft x 2ft, just over half the original dimensions] - a chance to
study closely a great painter's work, shown in a special exhibition at
the National Gallery in 2018

Book coversFor
two thrillers written by Andrew Segal, published by Happy London Press

An experiment, to
demonstrate how one
painting developedAs a
break from
some pretty routine work, I had a just-for-the-heck-of-it go at keeping
a record of the various stages of creating a computer-painted
illustration, turned into a Gif. The early frames are pretty
hideous, but see what you think of it eventually....

Repainting of damaged
copy of a
Gainsborough portraitOne of
the more
interesting commissions in recent months - an unconvincing copy of
Gainsborough's famous portrait of Mrs Siddons was cleaned and
partly-restored by a restoration team. They weren't happy
with
the result, and asked if I would make it look as much like the original
Gainsborough as possible

Logo for local
environmental consultancy
GRTSA logo
for use
on letterheads and website

Logo image for Wedding
PhotographerThe
photographer's own cat was to be included, portrayed as the 'bride' cat
in a feline wedding pair, with a British Blue as the 'groom'

Cover for Blue Green
Machine concert
programA
unique
concert combined professional and amateur musicians and singers,
including young choirs from local schools - a lively and thoughtful
collection of pieces celebrating our planet and the universe.
The
organisers were so pleased with the program cover that they used it to
make impromptu extra posters to herald the show

Guy Fawkes poster for
Houses of ParliamentA
computer-generated 'painting' for a campaign advising MPs to stay
secure on the internet. The art director later said the
project
had received much favourable comment from both houses, with requests
for copies of the poster, and that several had been nicked - he
reckoned in the circumstances that was quite a compliment!

Posters and other
publicity for National Museums ScotlandOne
huge computer-painted illustration to be combined with photographs of
the 'stars' of a big exhibition in Edinburgh about primates, 'Monkey
Business'. It's being
used for posters, banners, leaflets, bookmarks, badges, sides of buses,
and more!

Two more illustrations
for bottles and
boxes of new Hopper beers- a
Fall brew,
and a Pumpkin
one

Asian lions and their
food-chainIllustrations
for deployment on posters showing the difference between African and
Asian lions, and the food chain of the latter, for a new enclosure at
London Zoo

A huge
restorative-painting projectA
painting,
which was very dark when first bought, turned out to portray the myth
about the goddess Diana turning an unfortunate hunter, who saw her
bathing, into a stag. The painting had been hanging in a
convent,
and someone had painted clothes onto all the naked figures - making
something of a nonsense of the subject!

A series of owls and
owletsA new
financial company preparing to start-up in the city commissioned the
creation of an owl to characterize the business. It was great
fun making up a hopefully-believable owl, to avoid any possible
copyright clashes with other companies using owls

Restoration of old oil
paintingAfter
Everett Fine Art repaired, re-canvassed and cleaned off heavy
re-working on this painting, I had the good fortune to find very good
reference on line, to repaint the image more closely to the original.
This was one of the most interesting of many pieces of restorative
painting I've done in recent months

An assortment of logosClick
on image to see several recent logo commissions

Visualisation for Aardman
AnimationsCharacterisation
visual to accompany pitch for animated advertisement - Aardman were
selected to make the ad in question

Another crest for carriageFenix
carriages restored another beautiful old carriage, and commissioned a
version of the owners' crest to be painted directly on to the side and
back doors of the vehicle

Enhancement of two 'old
masters'Two
small old
oil paintings in very poor condition were the starting point for this
job. The owner wanted them more than touched up, to be images
that would
look ok from a few feet away, as 'wall-paper'....

Everline press and poster
campaignAdvertising
loans to small businesses -- briefed to depict an ultra-modern client
in proudly old-fashioned style

Another Vodafone posterA
large illustration of 18th Century Venice, with a forward thinking
gondolier plying his trade in a totally different way.....

Nursery School signTwo
bunnies commissioned for a nursery school name-board and stationery

Check these out.....Click
on image to see examples of an entirely new [as far as I know] method
of enriching both texture and colour in computer-painted work

Further Vodafone postersTwo
more
large scale posters for Vodafone's communication-linking technology

Two e-book coversOne
for Eleanor Allen's book Ghost Dog, a re-working of the original
paper-back cover, and one for a new e-book

Table Mountain Cable CarSide
and base illustration applied to the exterior of the Cable Car taking
sight-seers up the spectacular side of South Africa's Table Mountain

Vodafone poster campaign3
illustrations for a Vodafone poster campaign across different sites in
Ireland, promoting communication-linking designed to give users a
distinct advantage over those using standard systems

More MandalasFurther
illustrations for book of Mandalas, to aid contemplation on particular
themes
[see also 'Meditation
Mandalas' showing earlier work
for same series]

Qatari Diar 'Smart
Cities'
development promotionIllustration
for use by Qatar's major building and development company, promoting
its interest in projects which enhance the lives of those living in the
resulting communities

Unicorn CrestThree
unicorn crests [designed by David Lawrence] adapted and painted
directly onto the side and back doors of an antique horse-drawn
carriage being restored by Fenix Carriages for use at the
Royal
Windsor Horse Show

Doha Sheraton
development-site
hoardingsSix
illustrations commissioned for the perimeter fence around a large
development area in the capitol of Qatar

Hopper Whitman beer label
illustrationsIllustrations
for two labels,
for standard and winter versions of an American-produced Belgian-style
beer

Old-movie-poster styleLatest
portfolio-broadening piece, taking the stars of the modern 'Moulin
Rouge' and portraying them in the style of a bygone movie era

ExperimentHave
sometimes been asked
to adapt well-known paintings. This one imagines Renoir catching sight
of Kate Winslet and remodelling one of his earlier portraits

One that didn't happen....A
very nice brief for a vodka label evaporated before getting properly
underway - the new-to-me style that had been required was interesting
enough to have a go at anyway.....